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Christopher Tsang, James Parker and David Glew
A substantial number of dwellings in the UK have poor building fabric, leading to higher carbon emissions, fuel expenses, and the risk of cold homes. To tackle these challenges, domestic energy efficiency policies are being implemented. One effective app...
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Haijing Huang, Kedi Zhu and Xi Lin
The full exploration of the energy-saving potential during the operation of buildings is an essential aspect of energy-efficiency retrofitting for existing residential buildings. Setting reasonable energy consumption quotas can promote the improvement of...
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Youcef Boussaa, Ambrose Dodoo, Truong Nguyen and Katarina Rupar-Gadd
A major challenge in building energy renovation is to cost effectively achieve notable energy savings. This paper investigates cost-effective passive energy-efficiency measures for thermal envelope retrofit of a typical Swedish multi-apartment building f...
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Jorge E. Romero,Frederick J. Swanson,Julia A. Jones,Daniele Morgavi,Guido Giordano,Matteo Trolese,Felipe Aguilera,Tatiana Izquierdo,Diego Perugini
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The 22-23 April 2015 eruption of the Calbuco volcano (Southern Andes, Chile) led to extensive pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) interactions with vegetation. We seek to describe the PDCs which affected both Tepu and Frío rivers, northern Calbuco, from ...
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Evangelos Bellos, Panagiotis Lykas and Christos Tzivanidis
The exploitation of renewable energy sources in the building sector is a challenging aspect of achieving sustainability. The incorporation of a proper storage unit is a vital issue for managing properly renewable electricity production and so to avoid th...
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Zhaosong Fang, Zhisheng Guo, Weibin Chen, Huijun Wu and Zhimin Zheng
Owing to historical reasons, only a few locations in the Guangdong province use heating to enhance interior thermal conditions. With the variation in climate and increase in people?s lifestyle requirements, winter heating has become increasingly necessar...
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Dong Liu, Na Liu, Donglin Ren, Xiaozhou Wu, Jun Wang, Yabin Tian, Anjie Hu, Li Wan and Jialan Wen
The thermal comfort of preschool children was assumed to be similar to that of young adults, which may cause inaccuracy. This study tested and analyzed the thermal response characteristics of young adults and preschool children (4?6 years old) and the di...
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Ali Saberi-Derakhtenjani, Andreas K. Athienitis, Ursula Eicker and Edwin Rodriguez-Ubinas
Radiant floor systems offer significant potential for studying and developing energy flexibility strategies for buildings and their interaction with smart grids. Efficient design and operation of such systems require several critical decisions on design ...
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Xiaolong Wang, Tian Mu, Lili Zhang, Wenke Zhang and Linhua Zhang
The increasing application of floor heating technology promotes the development of floor radiant cooling technology (abbreviated as FRC technology). Many office buildings in northern China try to use FRC technology to cool in summer, but thermal comfort ...
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Inger Lise Andersen and Marko Ocepek
The objective of the present paper was to discuss the design of farrowing pens and present the first production results of the ?SowComfort farrowing pen? (SOWCOMF). The biggest difference between this pen and the traditional pen (TRAD) presented in the s...
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